After a huge debate raged around privacy concerns that left many Australians questioning whether they should even complete the Census, the government has tonight helpfully provided the answer: Even if you want to fill it out, you can’t. Visitors to the Census website, attempting to fulfil their civic duty, are unable to log on.

The official Census Twitter account is alternating between telling everyone that everything is fine, and pointing out the website is down.

It’s a pretty awkward result considering the Census website had literally one job: Letting people fill in their census forms. And to add insult to injury, it appears the federal government spent tens of thousands of dollars “load testing” the website to ensure it could handle all the traffic.

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the government department who run the Census, they are working hard to try and restore the website. But it seems likely most of the country will go to bed or finally finish watching Stranger Things rather than sit around and wait for service to be restored.

It’s the first time the Census has been run predominantly online, and given the disastrous outcome it might be last. Serves them right for bragging about how easy it would be!